Combined mirror and cabinet.



J. Y. JOHNSON & F. G. BARTZ. COMBINED MIRROR AND CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 11, 1911.

1,006,481. Patented 0011.24, 1911.

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JULIUS Y. JOHNSON AND FREDERICK G. BARTZ, 0F SCJItAIiT'lOIl',PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED MIRROR AND CABINET.

Patented Oct. 24:, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JULIUS Y. JOHNSON and FREDERICK C. BARTZ, citizensof the United States, residing at Scranton, in the county of Lackawannaand State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Combined Mirrors and Cabinets, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to improvements in combined cabinets andadjustable mirrors, and has for one of its objects to simplify andimprove the construction and increase the efliciency and utility of adevice of this character.

Another object of this invention is to provide a device of thischaracter wherein a plurality of mirrors are swingingly supported andadapted to be coactively employed to enable a front, side, and partialback view of a person to be seen, at the same time foldable intoparallel relations to form closures to the cabinet.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterwherein are a plurality of frames each having a mirror and foldable intoparallel relations and provided with suitable receptacles which seatwithin the cabinet when the frames are folded.

With these and other objects in view, as will more fully appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention consists of certain constructions,arrangements and combinations of the parts that we shall hereinafterfully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawing, in which: 7

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the im- .proved device with the frameshaving the mirrors partly open, Fig. 2 is a perspective view with theframes having the mirrors in closed position, and, Fig. 3 is a sectionon the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawingsby the samereference characters.

The improved device comprises a cabinet represented as a whole at 10 andincluding a top 11 and side members 12-13 of any suitable size ormaterial and provided with any suitable arrangement of shelves, pigeonholes, drawers or the like, and it is'not deslredtherefore to limit theimproved device so far as the construction of the interior of thecabinet is concerned. For the purpose of illustration the cabinetisshownprovide'd with a plurality of shelves 14 spaced apart in the usualmanner. The upper member 11 of the cabinet is preferably arranged tooverhang the front as represented at 15 in Fig. 3. The outer ed es ofthe shelves "14; are spaced inwardly; rom the outer edges of the front,and hingedly united at 17 to the interior of the cabinet so that a spaceis f left between the lower edge of the frame 18 and the bottom 20 ofthe cabinet. The frame 18 with its mirror 19 thus forms when closed aclosure for the upper portion of the front of the cabinet, and for thepurpose of'this description will be referred to as the inner frame.Hinged at 21 to the same end of the cabinet to which the member 18 ishinged, in the drawings the end 13, is another or outer frame 22 havinga mirror 23 presented toward the mirror 19 of the frame 18 when the twoframes 18-22 are disposed in parallel or closed relation. Hingedlyunited at 24 to the front end member 12 of the cabinet is another outerframe 25 having a mirror 26. The two outer frames 22-25 correspond inheight to the cabinet 10 and the mirrors -23-26 are shorter than theirrespective frames 2225, or equal in height to the mirror 19. By thisarrangement a space is left in the frame 25 beneath the mirror 26 whichis occupied by a receptacle 27 while a smaller space is left on theframe 22 beneath the mirror 23, this space being occupied by a smallerreceptacle, 28. By this arrangement it will be noted that the innerframe 18 when closed fits between the end members l213 and beneath theoverhanging portion 15 of the top 11 and the narrow outer frames 22-25fold over the inner frame 18 and in parallel relations thereto with theconfronting edges of the outer frames in engagement centrally of thecabinet as shown'in Fig. 2. It will also be noted that when the outerframes 2225 are folded the receptacles 27-28 will pass beneath the loweredge of the frame 18 and into the interior of the cabinet beneath itslower shelf as shown in Fig. 3 and with the upper edges of the outerframes 2225 also beneath the overhanging portion 15 of the top 11. Bythis simple arrangement a convenient and eflicient co1nbined cabinet andswinging mirror device is produced in which the contents of the cabmetare protected 'and'covered while at the same time the two swinging outermirrors may be employed in conjunction with the longer inner mirror toenable a person to observea partial back view. 'It will also be notedthat the longer mirror 19 may be employed in coactioncwith the shortermirror 23 to more effectually observe the side or rear view of theperson and the mirrors may be adjusted upon their hinges to any re-?uired extent to place them in better light or observation.

The improved device and simple construcsive or the least expensiveconstruction of cabinet with equal results.

forming a closure to the upper portion of the same, outer framescorresponding in height to the casing and each provided with a mir-JULIUS Y. JOHNSON. [a 8.] FREDERICK o. BARTZ. L. 8.

I Witnesses:

E. L. KIESEL, N. C. KI'EsEL.

